[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: *The line beeps and finally* ... what do you want.. *He sounds much more defeated than before*

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Rude. Very rude. I want to talk this out.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: If you're not going to give me the canister then we have nothing to talk about.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: I can give you the canister, but I'm not going to put up with your power plays. Either we discuss this like mature, reasonable adults, or I destroy the thing.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: Gggh! .. you.. ignorant little.. FINE!

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Why is this canister so important to you?


[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: It contains a form of energy that has thus far been impossible to recreate.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: And that relates to saving the world... how?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: That same energy was detected by the starguard vaporizing a planet three years ago.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: It appeared here, in an anomaly, ten years ago.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: The lab collected it, and you wanted to use it to...?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: I wanted to research it, find out what it was. I -need- to find out what it is.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Out of a fear it will destroy our world as well?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: That we can harness it! Can you imagine!?

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: I can imagine its destructive capability in the experimentation process. Doesn't it seem a bit too dangerous if it destroyed a planet?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: Yes. But someone contained it...

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: That doesn't make it docile.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: Someone managed to isolate the anomaly.. and -contain- it.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: NO no no. You're not listening.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: SOMEONE -took- the anomaly from me.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: And put it in that canister.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Took it? How did you have it in the first place?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: I discovered it on an expedition and built my lab around it. These are semantics.. You aren't -listening-.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Reiterate the part I'm not listening to in the terms of the layman and plainly.


[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: *A long sigh* Someone might have figured out how to use that energy.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: Please don't tell me these robots aren't yours.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: I found the .. construct.. near the anomaly and managed to shackle it before it adjusted to our environment.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: How do we stop it before it hurts any more people?

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: I don't know. It's highly adaptive. I had to keep upgrading the core and software progressively.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: That's irrelevant right now though.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: The canister.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: The canister is empty. We've nothing to trade you but a shell.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: ... That... that's impossible.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: It had to have been there!

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: No! No. It was there.

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: It was, for a time, but it escaped into the atmosphere.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: I didn't get it wron-... wh..what?

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: It blew straight up out of the top of the container. Could have killed us.

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: You..

[Team] Cataclysm@GigaGal: That means.. There's still time! *Comm clicks off*

[Team] COMPACT@Oakster: ...Rude.